Thursday, March 21, 2019

Open dictionary. Consult dictionary. Start over.

Sigh. Dear CNN: Did you mean in the sense of the OED's "to lend or add grace to (a person or thing); to adorn, embellish, set off," or did you have something else in mind with "graces"?

What the "second most talked-about politician in America" is doing in the headline is anyone's guess. The Time story doesn't seem to offer any evidence for that, but CNN is hardly the first outfit to repeat a bogus (or, more kindly, "unsupportable") claim in a headline. The real problem, though, is the verb. When the bad guys are going to blast away at your librul bias every chance they get, is there some specific reason you think it's a good idea to gift-wrap more ammunition and send it to them?

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